ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Corona virus was highly uncertain and complex in space and time and nature. Atmospheric parameters such AQI, NO2, PM2.5 and PM10 etc and local weather played an important role in COVID-19 cases and its spread. Therefore, the need of whether Air pollution induced the spread of COVID-19 or not is necessary to find out. This paper aims to examine whether the air pollution parameters influenced the spread of COVID-19 or not. METHODS: The pollution parameters like AQI, PM2.5, PM10, NO2 data were collected from a trusted source for both the cities. And the data for COVID-19 was also collected from the online trusted sources for daily deaths and daily new cases, for both the cities. And these were plotted against each other in separate graphs to find the relation between them. FINDINGS: The results revealed that the gaseous pollutants and COVID-19 daily cases and daily deaths for the period of Sept’2020 till 25th Nov’2020, were positively correlated. And the concerned pollution parameters when increased depicted the rise of COVID-19 daily deaths and daily new cases in the graphs for both the cities. Thus, by all analysis done from data, we can conclude that somehow “Air pollution was a factor which should be considered to relate to the spread of Covid-19 in case of Delhi-Gurugram City”. CONCLUSION: These findings may provide policy-makers with crucial information for better understanding about the effect of Air pollution on COVID-19 spread globally forvarious polluted cities which suffered high wave of increased number of COVID-19 cases and deaths related to it. Keywords: Air health; Air pollution; AQI; COVID-19
Publication date: 01/09/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.9.5634A